Monitoring and review

The evidence base should be reviewed to ensure that opportunities for decentralised, low carbon and renewable energy are maximised. It is also important to review progress and determine if any revisions are needed, particularly in view of any changes in the feasibility and viability of technologies and feedback from development control.

Key questions

• What is to be monitored?
  • Include progress against national and regional targets
  • Indicate how infrastructure providers have performed against programmes set out in support of the core strategy
• What information needs to be collected? How reliable is the information? How should it be interpreted? How will information be reported?
• Are the indicators in line with the Sustainability Appraisal and other local indicators?
• Have provisions been made in planning policy to require sites to supply monitoring data, including information on renewable and low carbon energy capacity installed and output?

See the monitoring and review page in the Development Control section of this toolkit for more information.

Further guidance is available from the Practice Guide for the PPS1 Supplement on Climate Change. www.hcaacademy.co.uk/node/389